Running of the Bulls!

Every year there are short stories you'll hear on the news or read in the newspaper about the Running of the Bulls. The most famous running of the bulls is the nine-day festival of San Fermín in Pamplona.

What we typically see is a video clip of the running of the bulls, then a daily count of the number of people who were injured or killed. (Deaths are relatively rare, the last person killed was Chicago native Matthew Tassio, in 1995.) This is typically followed by a sound bite of someone saying, "The Running of the Bulls is SO dangerous, I don't even know why it's allowed. Every year you hear about some people getting hurt or killed. They should illegalize it."

I know for sure that if there was an annual tradition every July in the United States where people were hurt doing the same dangerous thing time and time again, we'd outlaw it right away! Especially if the number of people injured wasn't in the dozens like Spain, but thousands.